Red Widow: To Be Cancelled or Renewed for Season Two?

Tonight marks the season finale of Red Widow since ABC ordered just eight episodes of the series. Is this the end? Will the drama be back for a second season or will it be cancelled instead?

For those unfamiliar with the show, Red Widow revolves around a San Francisco housewife and mother who finds herself forced to continue her husband’s work in organized crime after his death. The large cast includes Radha Mitchell, Clifton Collins Jr., Luke Goss, Sterling Beaumon, Suleka Mathew, Erin Moriarty, Jaime Ray Newman, Jakob Salvati, Lee Tergesen, Wil Traval, Rade Serbedzija, and Goran Visnjic.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing a second season renewal for Red Widow. The show’s ratings were poor at the start — debuting to a 1.5 demo rating with 7.13 million viewers — and have gotten a lot worse as the weeks have worn on.

Last week’s numbers fell to a new low — a 0.7 rating in the coveted 18-49 demographic with 3.47 million total viewers. Red Widow is one of the lowest-rated shows on the network, ensuring that ABC won’t be bringing it back next season.

But, what do you think? Should ABC renew the drama or are they justified in cancelling it? Are you satisfied with the last episode? How would you wrap up the storylines?

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Every single new show I have liked in the past 10 years or so gets dropped after or during the first season. Yet the “reality”, gossip, and so-called talent programming continues to multiply exponentially. I don’t understand it. I rely more and more on my own collection of DVDs for entertainment instead of subscribing to cable or on-line streaming. Although, it does make it cheaper to own the entire series’ of my favorite television shows on DVD, since they only have one season.

I’m so upset about red widow being cancelled. I looked forward to this show every week. With my busy scheduled I always watched it on demand and got caught up with all the episodes that way. This is the second series that got cancelled from this network that I really enjoyed. I’m so disappointed. Sunday night was my favorite tv night on abc. The network should keep red widow. It’s a great show!

To whom it may Concern, I started to watch Red Widow completely by accident. I saw no build up for the show. I saw no ads. And with so many ways to watch things now, people watch shows on their computers etc. Networks put long intervals between episodes and don’t give people a chance to “find” a show. It has gotten so I would rather wait until I find out if a show is going to hang around before watching it and being disappointed when it is cancelled. I wait until I know for sure that it is going to… Read more »

Please donot cancel this show. It had so many twist and turns. I did like the season finale. Was totally shocked at the ending. WOW! Maybe people didn’t want to think, but I like shows that make you think who did it. Now I would like to see it go farther.